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In reply to the discussion: Chris Matthews defends attack on Priebus: GOP 'dividing country along racial lines' [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Ouch. It's painful to admit it when I'm wrong, but I found the man love gushing you were referring to. Not just him, but a bunch of 'em.
Liddy, a famous Republican admittedly, had the worst comments. Gushing about the flight suit making the most of Bush's - ahem - assets. And that women love that, although they SAY size doesn't matter, we know it does. CAN YOU IMAGINE???!!!
I guess I didn't see that at the time. I just caught later comments.
But, in all fairness, I do have to point out that it was mainly a guy thing about the PHOTO OP of it all, how clever it was to make a strong manly point to the rest of the world. This wasn't that long after 9/11, so there was still this "they got us" feeling particularly by men in the country. I think that was a large part of it. Not the justness of it all, but that the photo op and the imagery and symbolism of it was great. To him and some others. To ME it was disgusting, and I thought the flight suit was silly. It did not escape me how silly it was, since he had not actually ever faced a bullet or flown a plane that size. And the silly bulge seemed more like a fake bulge to me.
Still, it was a man-love fest by several men, including Zakaria, and a couple of women.
Well, I guess I accept him for what he is. He's emotional, he gets carried away, he likes manly men to be men...which I guess is why he can call out the crazies on his show.
I suspect he knew Bush personally. That always has an effect on people. Bush is by all accounts a really nice guy who is fun to be around. He was just a terrible and weak President. And either dishonest, or he was so stupid that he was duped by Cheney and the real leaders of his party. It could be the latter. He isn't very intelligent.
Anyway, I stand corrected! He DID have a man-love thing for Bush for a while. But don't forget that he also fell in love with Obama.